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Faculty Definitions & Titles

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Definitions

From Administrative Rule #4.0401.01: Faculty Qualifications:

• • “Full-time faculty” refers to all full-time staffing table teaching faculty, librarians, and counselors
    who are paid on the full-time faculty pay scale.
  • “Adjunct faculty” refers to those non-staffing table faculty appointed on a part-time basis for a
    specified period of time.
  • “Skills instructor” refers to those instructors appointed on a course-by-course basis who have
    knowledge and experience in specific course content and work under the supervision of a SACSqualified faculty member.
  • “Faculty hired by justification” refers to faculty who have qualifications other than normally expected academic credentials such as: outstanding professional experience, appropriate licenses, honors and awards, or other demonstrated competencies or achievements that further the instructional goals and objectives of the College.

 

Titles

Full-time faculty, including librarians and counselors, shall hold the title of Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor. The method of placement for full-time faculty, including librarians and counselors, shall be determined only by placement on the 10.5-month faculty schedule.

Newly hired faculty qualifying by pay scale for the title of Professor shall hold the title of Associate Professor until such time as appropriate evaluative criteria have been met and a three-year contract offered. Full-time faculty, including librarians and counselors, who otherwise qualify by placement on the 10.5- month schedule to move up in rank must have a satisfactory evaluation and a recommendation by their supervisor.